Cloud

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is widely expected to limit the amount of data companies can use for data mining, but new research suggests that it will actually be a boon for the FinTech industry. One result of the GDPR is that businesses will have access to honestly ...

As the EU prepares to roll out new data protection regulations this month, concerns are emerging that they could dissuade businesses from rolling out blockchain-based projects because the online transaction technology might innately break the new rules. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) targets citizens’ personally identifiable information (PII), ...

Leading jewelry companies that have struggled with proving the authenticity of their goods have launched an online electronic ledger based on blockchain to improve global provenance in the diamond and jewelry supply chain. The new TrustChain Initiative uses IBM’s blockchain cloud service to allow jewelry buyers to verify the providence of gold and diamond ...

This year, blockchain testing programs will evolve from pilot tests to real-world platforms, and supply chain management is among the industries the distributed ledger technology is set to disrupt. In January, Maersk and IBM announced a joint venture to deploy a blockchain-based electronic shipping system that will digitize supply chains and ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has finally addressed multiple data breaches resulting from unencrypted S3 buckets, adding basic protections to its cloud storage service. The AA, Accenture, Verizon, Dow Jones and even the WWE are among a spate of companies that have suffered data leaks because they haven’t secured their S3 ...

Lush is a cosmetics retailer specialising in a number of products including soaps, bath bombs and face masks. It has recently pushed itself into the digital world by developing a new app called Lush Lens and a virtual assistant called Lush Concierge. We caught up with Lush’s Ryan Kerry, its ...

The cloud computing infrastructure market—IaaS, PaaS, and private hosting—continues to consolidate around the four major providers, as they maintain or even grow market share at the expense of smaller providers. AWS has continued to grow its revenues more rapidly than the overall market. In other words, AWS is the one ...

Apple’s iCloud is used for everything from storage to syncing to verifying purchases from the App Store and iTunes. That’s why you should keep it as secure as possible. Here’s how. Given that so many of the details of our digital lives are either with us (on our smartphones) or ...

The cloud computing infrastructure market—IaaS, PaaS, and private hosting—continues to consolidate around the four major providers, as they maintain or even grow market share at the expense of smaller providers. AWS has continued to grow its revenues more rapidly than the overall market. In other words, AWS is the one ...

Google Home is the tech giant’s answer to the question of how to bring you the smart home of tomorrow today. The device, which was revealed at Google’s I/O conference in May 2016, leverages Google’s latest virtual assistant to provide you with a real-world search tool, media centre, and IoT ...